Industrial Innovation: Wireless Communications Industry

Updated Time: 4 Jul 2017

The Wireless Communications Industry has a total of 8,181,849 granted patents and 11,745,052 patent applications distributed into 8,946,355 patent families. Based on the countries of patent applications, the key markets are Japan, USA and China. The main technology areas are electric digital data processing, semiconductor devices; electric solid state devices and pictorial communication. The top companies in this industry are SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, PANASONIC and CANON.

14,581,672Total Patents

8,181,849 Grants

11,745,052 Applications

The Wireless Communications Industry has a grant to application ratio of 0.697, which is approximately 1 patent granted for every 1.436 patent applications.

Geographic Breakdown

By showing the geographic breakdown of the patents in this technology field, it is possible to determine the territorial markets in which the technology field is prominent or which markets have opportunities for development.

TOP 3 Countries

Japan

Japan is the top country/region for patent coverage with a total of 4,456,771 patents.

USA

USA comes in 2nd with a total of 2,870,756 patents.

China

China rounds up the top 3 with a total of 1,741,083 patents.

Key Technologies

Through grouping the patents in the technology field into their various technology areas, it is possible to identify the core technology areas of this field.

Valuable Patents

The ranking below shows some of the most valuable and important patents in this industry.